Office workers!! Do you like to work with lights on or off?

[DisneyHardin]

I like lights on. At school, I'm the Librarian and there are 6 rows of fluorescent lights - I usually turn about half of them on. The kids seem calmer when there aren't a ton of lights.

At home, I like lights on when I do things like use the computer or watch TV.

 

[jimmymc]

I like dim lighting or only natural light. The bright fluorescent or LEDs are too much when you're looking at a screen all day.

 

[GAN]

I prefer them dimmed for sure!

 

[tvguy]

I think that is what we have here at work. We upgraded all the lights here a couple years back, because I work for the state and they had to redo the lights for efficiency or whatever, which made me laugh because this hospital is only 5 years old lol. It opened in 2019, so you'd have thought they would have just went with those to begin with.

I think for me it's the combo of 2 light fixtures in what is basically a 9x9 office, with white concrete walls. It's just too much brightness. in my old office, I didn't have a window so I had to bring in a small desk lamp. But my office now, I have a window so unless it's super overcast or storming out, there is plenty of light.

I worked at two TV stations that used the newsroom for a while as the studio. So during newscasts we had bright TV lights on as well as the normal lighting. My work position at my last station was right behind the main anchor by about 20 feet. So the back of my head was on camera a lot, and you could sort of see what was on my computer screen too. That was interesting.

 

[Ronaldo17]

Lights on, always!

 

[MsChristy12]

This is interesting...I've done both and things have changed over the years.

I used to like the office ceiling light off, but I have a lamp on my desk that I like it on while working. But now, everything on, including the lamp on my desk for extra lighting! The lamp has a sensor that it might shut off once in awhile and I tried working without it...nope! Within a couple mins I had to wave at it to turn it back on!

 

[happybaker]

We have a lot of natural light so the overhead lights are usually off. I have some desk and floor lamps around my area, if i need more light. If it's really dark outside, we turn on the dimmable lights in one section of the ceiling lights.

 

[monsterkitty]

I like lights on. At school, I'm the Librarian and there are 6 rows of fluorescent lights - I usually turn about half of them on. The kids seem calmer when there aren't a ton of lights.

At home, I like lights on when I do things like use the computer or watch TV.

The students do seem calmer with few lights. I often wondered if it was the fewer lights or the lack of humming from the lights that made them calmer, though.

My classroom had no windows, so it was always lights on. On warm days I would turn half the lights off to keep it a bit cooler in the room.

Funny story - We got a new principal who walked into my room one day took the flashlights that I had on a shelf. He couldn't tell me why he felt they were not needed in my room, while I said they would be needed at times. That year there was a new development going in across the street from our school. All power lines are under ground in our area and for some reason, they kept hitting the lines as they dug. Every time the lights went out, I would take my students out in the hall so they would do quite work. The principal would come down the hall and yell at me because my kids were in the hall working on math and not in my room playing their instruments.

I worked it out with the other teachers in my hallway that next time the lights went out, my students would be playing their instruments in the hallway. Principal Butthead came storming out of the office during the next outage to yell at me. A student told him to walk in the classroom and see if he could do his work in there. Principal walked in, walked out and went back to his office.

I got a dozen flashlights later that week.

 

[tvguy]

My classroom had no windows, so it was always lights on. On warm days I would turn half the lights off to keep it a bit cooler in the room.

You are not the first to mention classrooms with no windows. Most of the public schools around here were built after World War II in a city where it gets to 100 degrees and schools did not have air conditioning. The windows were up high, about 15 feet up on two sides of the classroom for ventilation. They did put air conditioning in about 20 years ago, but 10 years ago a bond measure was passed to tear down all these school buildings and build new buildings. They all have windows now down low, so they can be used as escape routes in case of emergency such as fire. One of the lessons of Uvalde was , windows were critical escape routes for students. I guess that is why it still surprises me that there are classrooms with no windows.

 

[monsterkitty]

You are not the first to mention classrooms with no windows. Most of the public schools around here were built after World War II in a city where it gets to 100 degrees and schools did not have air conditioning. The windows were up high, about 15 feet up on two sides of the classroom for ventilation. They did put air conditioning in about 20 years ago, but 10 years ago a bond measure was passed to tear down all these school buildings and build new buildings. They all have windows now down low, so they can be used as escape routes in case of emergency such as fire. One of the lessons of Uvalde was , windows were critical escape routes for students. I guess that is why it still surprises me that there are classrooms with no windows.

My school was built in 1962 so no AC. It would routinely get over 100 in my room if it was over 80 outside. It also snowed in my room so there's that.